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The Iroquoian peoples had matrilineal kinship systems. [16] They were historically sedentary farmers who lived in large fortified villages enclosed by palisades thirty feet high as a defence against enemy attack, these settlements were referred to as “towns” by early Europeans and supplemented their diet with additional hunting and ...
The St. Lawrence Iroquoians, Wendat (Huron), Erie, and Susquehannock, all independent peoples known to the European colonists, also spoke Iroquoian languages. They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Historically, however, they were competitors and enemies of the ...
The Seneca's own name for themselves is O-non-dowa-gah or Onödowá’ga, meaning "Great Hill People" [5] [6] The exonym Seneca is "the Anglicized form of the Dutch pronunciation of the Mohegan rendering of the Iroquoian ethnic appellative" originally referring to the Oneida.
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States who state they have Iroquoian ancestry. See also: Native American identity in the United States Subcategories
They are an Iroquoian Native American and First Nations people. The Tuscarora Nation, a federally recognized tribe, is based in New York, and the Tuscarora First Nation is one of the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. [2] Prior to European contact, the Tuscarora lived in the Carolinas along the Roanoke, Neuse, Tar, and Pamlico rivers. [3]
The St. Lawrence Iroquoians were an Iroquoian Indigenous people who existed until about the late 16th century. They concentrated along the shores of the St. Lawrence River in present-day Quebec and Ontario, Canada, and in the American states of New York and northernmost Vermont.
Iroquoian peoples — Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands cultural area, in eastern North America. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Related ethnic groups Seneca Nation , Onondaga Nation , Tuscarora Nation , Mohawk Nation , Cayuga Nation , other Iroquoian peoples The Oneida people ( / oʊ ˈ n aɪ d ə / ⓘ oh- NY -də ; [ 1 ] autonym : Onʌyoteˀa·ká·, Onyota'a:ka , the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone , Thwahrù·nęʼ [ 2 ] in Tuscarora ) are a Native ...